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To be fair, the announcement was posted to the R-announce mailing list, and it seems probable that subscribers would know what R is.

• rwmj 7y ago
  But here we are reading it on a general tech news site.
  • gumby 7y ago
    Thats not the fault of the R developers who wrote a message appropriate for the audience to which they sent it.
    • rwmj 7y ago
      And they never imagined that the announcement of a major release of a popular piece of software would go beyond the mailing list?
      • touktouk 7y ago
        Should every message be written with all possible audiences in mind?
        • rwmj 7y ago
          It's lucky I never said that because obviously that would be stupid. However the release of a major version of a popular piece of software should be expected to go beyond the mailing list - and guess what, it being on the front page of HN all morning proves that exact point.